• Based in Margaret River
• Very flexible with start and finish times! You can even do it over two days or School hours - 7.6 hours per week total
• Work alongside an amazing team

 Why join us?

• First class training and development opportunities
• Discounts on health insurance through HBF or Medibank
• Discounts on banking products through Bankwest
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Discounts at JB HI-FI & The Good Guys
• Salary Packaging (up to $18,550 tax free) to all eligible employees
• Accommodation discounts at Seashells Hospitality Group
• Access to our Wellness Program
• A fantastic team environment
• Values based organisation
• Chance to give back! Provide care to older Western Australians

About your new role:

This position is responsible for leading in the provision of quality pastoral and spiritual care in line with the Vision, Mission, Values, Theology of Care, and strategic objectives within a multicultural, multi-faith environment.

This position is responsible for supporting staff and volunteers in the integration of pastoral and spiritual care in the context of the provision of customer centric care in a highly complex environment, in a way that celebrates our diversity and changing lifestyles.

Duties:

• Provide quality pastoral and spiritual care for residents and their families and, where relevant, home care and retirement living customers
• Ensure that all pastoral and spiritual care needs are regularly appraised.  Coordinate appropriate responses to those needs by direct provision of support or by arranging and facilitating others. This may include presence, conversation, ritual, services, sacraments, ceremonies and sharing of sacred spaces and resources
• Provide integrated leadership working with Operational Line Managers, including attending clinical care meetings, family conferences, and assessing spiritual needs to ensure consistency of service delivery
• Recruit, train, coordinate and mentor a team of pastoral care volunteers

Skills and Experience:

• Qualifications in theology or equivalent e.g. Bachelor or Diploma of Theology/Ministry
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Competence in Microsoft Office and related software
• A special interest in working with older people, including in dementia and palliative care contexts.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in providing pastoral and spiritual care to people outside a faith community
• Flexibility and ability to work independently with minimum supervision, as well as part of an interdisciplinary team

• Valid unrestricted Australian Driver’s Licence
• Ability to pass a National Police Check
• Willingness to obtain or provide proof of Influenza & Covid-19 Vaccination

• Willingness to undergo a pre-employment medical

 About Us:

Baptistcare is one of WA’s largest providers of residential aged care, retirement living and home care services, providing the highest level of quality care and support across both metro and regional locations. We focus on empowering our customers to maintain homely comforts and community connection by providing care with compassion, integrity, and dignity.

Our focus is not limited to our customers, but also your wellbeing and career growth. We aim to support you to achieve a fulfilling career with first class training and development opportunities.

We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is valued. The more diversity we have, the more unique perspectives and creative ideas we share. Therefore, we embrace people of different age, religion, sexual orientation or identity, physical or mental ability and ethnicity.

How to Apply

If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. Click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts.

For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Michelle at [email protected] using the subject line: Chaplain enquiry via EthicalJobs. Please note that we do not accept applications to this email address, they must be submitted online.

Applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as applications may be reviewed prior to the closing date; and as such the closing date is subject to change without notice.